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...body of the late Pope Pius XI, clad in a red chasuble and mitre of cloth-of-gold, lay one day last week in a triple coffin near the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. For three days before, throngs (estimated as high as 1,200,000) had ceaselessly filed past the chapel where the Pope's body lay upon a catafalque...
...carried into St. Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites, on the fourth day of which the Pope was to be immured in a triple coffin of cypress, lead and elm. His resting place, near the tomb of the Fisherman in the crypt of St. Peter's, Pius XI chose long ago, declaring: ''I also will find sweet repose in this place some...
Soon after death came to Pius XI last week, the great eleven-ton Campanone, largest of St. Peter's bells, was set to its deep, sad tolling. This week, as a triple coffin was lowered to the crypt of St. Peter's, not only the Campanone and the bells of Rome's mourning churches but a tolling from hundreds of cathedrals, from thousands of parish churches the world over, sounded the grief of the widowed Church and millions of her children over the loss of the kindly little man whom, they devoutly and humbly believed, the workings...
Serene, courtly President Henry Sloane Coffin of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary said in Buffalo that he hoped that Episcopalians "really mean business" in planning the union. Said he: "We Presbyterians mean it. We will wait, because we have Scotch caution. . . . [But] if we asked for reordination at our general assembly, we would have a revolt on our hands. . . . We Presbyterians have no question of the validity of our ministry...
...student at Wells College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University...